Hello,

> server  tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer

Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual
value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway.

> disable auth
> broadcastclient
> server ntp.server.com prefer

This looks fine to me; although configuring a broadcast association when
your clients also have a unicast association to the same server seems a
bit pointless, this should not cause any harm.

I think you should first try to fix your server config and see if
getting a proper sync on the server also solves the problem with the
clients.

> As for /etc/conf.d/ntpd, we have set nothing. To be honest I did not
> even know the file
> existed till you mentioned it:
>
> NTPD_OPTS="-u ntp:ntp"

That is where you put the commandline options you want ntpd to be
started with.

> I would have liked to be better prepared for this but the gentoo wiki
> page has been down for a few weeks now. We are not looking for
> microsecond synchronization however, down to the second would be nice!

I doubt you can consistently achieve microsecond-level synchronization
with NTP ;)

The official documentation of the ntp suite [1] is a good source of
information; the man pages of ntpd and ntp.conf are also quite
extensive, albeit a bit terse.

andrea

[1] http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/index.html



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